Fence-barb and barbed-wire cable



G. O. BAKER. Fence Barb and Barbed Wire Gable.

No. 233,832. Patented Nov. 2, 1880.

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GEORGE U. BAKER, OF DES MOINES, IOWA.

FENCE-BARB AND BARBED-WIRE CABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,832, dated November 2, 1880.

Application filed January 12, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE C. BAKER, of Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, have invented an Improved Fence- Barb and Barbedire Gable, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of fencebarbs and barbed-wire cables in which two uniform barb-pieces are applied to the cablestrands to form four-pointed and interlocked barbs at intervals, and to reciprocally bind the cable'strands together to prevent them from separating at any point where the complete cable may be cut or broken off; and my improvement consists in the manner of combining two staple'shaped barb-pieces, two cable-strands, and a ring to produce an improved interlocked barb and barbed cable, as hereinafter fully set forth.

Figure l of my drawings is a transverse section of my improved barbed cable. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a short piece of the complete barbed cable. Together they clearly illustrate the construction and utility of my improved barb and cable.

arepresents asmall ring, that may be formed of wire or stamped from sheet metal. In constructing a four-pointed barb, and also at the same time tying the cable-strands together, I place the ring a between two parallel cablestrands, so that it will be clamped fast by the contiguous strands,and thereby held in position to receive the two barb-pieces. After the ring cis thus placedin position Itake one of the staple-shaped barb-pieces b and place it astride the cable-strand No. l, and pass its prongs jointly through the ring a, to extend outward and at right angles over the contiguous cable-strand No. 2. I next place the second staple-shaped barb-piece astride of the cable-strand N o. 2, and pass its prongs jointly through the ring a in the opposite direction from which the prongs of the first staple-shaped barb-piece were passed through the same ring. The two contiguous cable-strands Nos. 1 and 2 are thus separately inclosed in the separate and closed ends of the staple-shaped barb-pieces, and both the barbpieces are jointly inclosed by the ring or the barbpieces may be put in place on the cablestrands and the ring then formed around their prongs. By then simply twisting the cablestrands together and spreading apart the prongs of each of the barb-pieces that project in diverse ways from the central ring, a, all the elementary parts-the two cable-strands Nos. 1 and 2, the two stapleshaped barbpieccs b I), and the ring a-are reciprocally clamped together and interlocked to produce a firmly-fixed four-pointed barb and a complete barbed cable that is compactly bound together by means of the barb, as required, to prevent the cable-strands from untwistin g and separating.

I am aware that two wire barb-pieces have been combined with two contiguous cablestrands by twisting and coiling in various ways to reciprocally bind the cable-strands together and to produce fixed four-pointed barbs.

I am also aware that a single staple-shaped barb-piece and a clamping-ring made of sheet metal or wire in various ways have been combined with a single fence-wire, and also with a two-stranded cable, to produce two-pointed and four-pointed barbs, by passing the prongs of a staple-shaped barb-piece over the fence-wire or the cablestrands and elampin g itfastthereto by means of a ring, or by winding a piece of wire around the prongs and then spreading the prongs; but cable-strands thus jointly inclosed in one and the same staple-shaped barbpiece are practically the same as one wire, and do not prevent the complete barb from sliding on the cable, and do not assist in reciprocally binding all the parts together as contemplated by my invention, in which the cable'strands are separately inclosed in separate stapleshaped barb-pieces and the prongs of the two staple-shaped pieces jointly inclosed in a retainer-ring, and that ring clamped by and between the two cable-strands and retained in place by the reciprocal and diversely-directed forces of the two staple-shaped barb-pieces and the two cable-strands, as required to interlock and bind-all the parts firmly together to produce an improved barb and barbed-Wire cable.

I therefore do not claim that the combination of a staple-form barb-piece with a ring and a fence wire or cable is novel; but

What I do claim as my invention, and destrands, and are bent outward, as shown, for

sire to secure by Letters Patent, is the purposes specified.

The combination, with the two twisted 021- ble-strands and a ring interposed between the GEORGE BAKER 5 said strands, of the two staple-shaped barb- Witnesses:

pieces, which pass through said ring from op- FRANK W. HEERS, posite sides and ineiose the two twisted cabie- R. G. ORWIG. 

